Movies like The Cat's Meow

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The Cat's Meow (2001)
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The Cat's Meow (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Style: stylized, witty, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, period piece, clever, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: hollywood, murder, yacht, infidelity, adultery, secrets, police investigation, mistress, gossip, crimes of passion, couples, actor's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, flapper, satire, age difference, love, husband wife relationship, party, ocean liner, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, filmmaking, death ...
Time: 1920s, year 2001, 20th century, 20s
Place: california, greece, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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Most similar movies to The Cat's Meow

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, stylized and crying films with plots about couples, infidelity, husband wife relationship, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty and adultery mostly in Romance, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Cat's Meow: Valmont (1989), Up at the Villa (2000), Hollywoodland (2006), A Good Woman (2004), The Great Gatsby (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Valmont (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Up at the Villa (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: widow, blackmail, refugee, vacation, destructive relationship, fall in love, couples, false accusation, dishonesty, seduction, intrigue, loveless marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, pre world war two
Place: italy, florence, europe, rome italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hollywoodland (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The complicated life and controversial suicide of George Reeves is investigated by a fictional private detective who finds that there are reasons to suspect that Reeves may not have killed himself after all. The detective also finds that there is a ...
Style: neo noir, detective, intense, period piece, atmospheric ...
Plot: private detective, murder, showbiz, hollywood, biopic, fame, uncover truth, starlet, actor's life, dishonesty, husband murders wife, filmmaking ...
Time: 50s, year 1959, 20th century, 1950s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.4
 14K
A Good Woman (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar ...
Style: stylized, light, period piece, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: femme fatale, infidelity, justice, slut, betrayal, farce, rich man, love and romance, social differences, high society, women, woman ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, new york, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Great Gatsby (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession ...
Style: period piece, stylized, captivating, visual, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, love and romance, society, love triangle, glamour, fall in love, love affair, fashion, american history, bittersweet, storytelling, decadence ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: rhode island, new york, long island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
All Good Things (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: murder, disappearance, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, abusive husband, investigation, dysfunctional marriage, missing person, twists and turns, justice, obsession ...
Time: 80s, year 2010, future, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, vermont ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.0
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Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style: captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, slut, adultery, manipulation, dysfunctional family, family relations, love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife.
Style: neo noir
Plot: true crime, serial killer, age difference, lolita, age-gap relationship, teenage girl, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, girl man relationship, may december romance, husband wife relationship, pizza ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style: witty, melancholic, touching, clever, sexy ...
Plot: sex, infidelity, writers, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, love, betrayal ...
Time: year 2001
Place: santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Style: disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: female nudity, lovers reunited, infidelity, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love affair, midlife crisis, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, actor's life ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual ...
Plot: on the road, on the run, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, betrayal, infidelity, surrealism, couple relations, couples, vietnam war, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, near future, 60s
Place: france, paris france, mediterranean sea, europe, provence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.1
 697
Legalese (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a sexy actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution
Style: realistic, semi serious, talky, biting, clever ...
Plot: lawyer, neighbor, infidelity, satire, media satire, false accusation, murder, courtroom drama, who done it, celebrity culture, dedicated lawyer, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Timecode (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering ...
Style: ironic, psychological, enigmatic, tense, cerebral ...
Plot: manipulation, infidelity, jealousy, existentialism, surveillance, adaptation, storytelling, artists and showbiz, love and romance, couple relations, showbiz, lesbian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Two Faces of January (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.
Style: tense, suspenseful, romantic, suspense, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: murder, on the run, tour guide, con artists, private detective, greed, love triangle, american abroad, cons and scams, ruins, dishonesty, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1962
Place: greece, athens greece, somalia, europe, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, witty, clever ...
Plot: adultery, love, writers, infidelity, estate, world war one, writer's life, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, social differences, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1914
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
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Married Life (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The late 1940s. Richard Langley, a bachelor playboy, narrates a story that starts when his best friend, Harry Allen, invites him to lunch to tell Richard he's in love. Trouble is, Harry's already married to Pat; he worries Pat would be ...
Style: stylized, talky, melancholic, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: relationships, friendship, fall in love, love story, in love, jealousy, adultery, love and romance, crumbling marriage, love affair, infidelity, unrequited love ...
Time: 1940s, 2000s, year 2007, year 1949, year 1947 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 36K
Nurse Betty (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, light, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: happy ending, murder, medical, psychology, hospital, memory loss, delusion, losing-it hero, obsessive quest, road trip, mental illness, killer ...
Time: y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, kansas, usa, kansas city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.9
 248K
Beauty Spot (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style: emotional, southern gothic, intense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, adultery, betrayal, drug addiction, loneliness, movie star, justice, tragedy, character study, couple relations, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The House of Mirth (2000)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Style: costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, intense, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, love affair, destiny, tragedy, happy ending, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, couple relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 2000s, turn of the century ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, mediterranean sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.2
 2K
Gabrielle (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.2
 678
Another Life (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: murder, dangerous attraction, unlikely criminals, femme fatale, forbidden love, fall in love, dishonesty, rescue, life is a bitch, love affair, infidelity, couples ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style: psychological, period piece, costume drama, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, depression, multiple storylines, couple relations, fall in love, infidelity, relationships, art, women, male female relationship, unhappy marriage, impossible love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1870s
Place: europe, england, florence, london, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.0
 4K
Liz & Dick (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, sexy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hollywood, couples, actor's life, paparazzi, couple relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, renewed love, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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